Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet’s atmosphere.

Unusual signals from a blazar over 900 million years away with a jet of plasma pointed toward Earth has astronomers stumped.

At the center of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. These powerful objects sometimes enter active galactic nucleus (AGN) mode, where they pull in gas and ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex that even experts do not understand them. However, the risk to society of ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The former Wolverine has been selected as one of four people who have been recommended to receive honorary degrees from the ...

A supernova — the explosive death of a massive star — can leave behind a black hole or neutron star. These cosmic blasts are element factories, spreading carbon, calcium, and iron across space, ...

Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist, is transforming the science of black holes with pioneering concepts such as 'direct collapse' formation. With computations advancing in power, her ...

In New Delhi to speak at the Indian International Centre where she presented groundbreaking findings that suggest there ought ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...